Zionism’s quiet influence on our Foreign Relations
On 29 August 2019 we wrote the following email to Ron Mark:
On 29 August 2019 we wrote the following email to Ron Mark:
The government needs to be told that there is a difference between measuring a problem and doing something seriously about it.
I’m just assuming Fairfax now donates to the NZ First Foundation.
Building a better motorway bridge for the homeless to sleep under isn’t much of a vision.
The structural reality of how National intend to make this the most negative election ever by playing directly to that negativity must be consistently pointed out and explained to our whanau so that they don’t get scammed into voting hatefully in 2020.
Since the Government’s budget announcement of a large spending increase in the mental health area, it has followed up with specific initiatives, including the recent establishment of the new Suicide Prevention Office, and increased spending on Maori & Pacific suicide prevention and school counselling and mental health support.
I think it’s safe to say that after Finance Minister Grant Robertson’s announcement of the Government’s proposed infrastructure spend-up, the New Zealand Establishment will be plotting nothing more dangerous that inviting the Minister to celebratory end-of-year drinks.
Backbench Opposition MPs are occasionally curious creatures, as are social media advert-targeting algorithms. Due, no doubt, to an ongoing quirk of the latter, I found myself presented with a sponsored post from National’s List MP based on Mt Roskill, Parmjeet Parmar, calling for the enshrinement of a Gandhi statue here in Auckland to coincide with the latter figure’s 150th birthday and asking me to sign a petition in support of same.
WHAT IF EVERYTHING we currently think about politics in New Zealand is wrong?
The 2019 child poverty monitor report makes for grim reading…